Thanks for your reply, but the FAQ, unless I didn't read the good one, do not answer my questions.I know that 810 still in an alpha release that's why I posted under the "Developers" forum in order to understand how exactly LinuxMCE is interacting with the core OS (i.e. Kubuntu).

However, as much of my Hardware is not even compatible officially compatible with a normal installation of Kubuntu 8.10, I will still have to customize my LinuxMCE installation.

Having crawling the installation script and packages provided by LinuxMCE repository, it looks that lirc should be customize/upgrade after the the installation. Same thing about upgrading the kernel as some modules are already compile/prepared for the 2.6.27-11 version from Kubuntu 810.

I will give a try and let you know. it will probably open a place for new hardware compatibility list, at least for mine!